Mother Pelican ~ July 2025

[Luis Gutierrez]

Mother Pelican A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability Vol. 21, No. 7, July 2025 Deep Renewal of Human Relations One Sacred Community Mary Southard CSJ Ministry of the Arts 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si' on Care of the Planet and Integral Ecology 5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development PATRIARCHY is a deeply ingrained gender ideology.              There can be no deep renewal of human relations as long as RELIGIOUS PATRIARCHY lurks in the collective unconscious. EXAMPLE The Creation of Adam Sistine Chapel Vatican City Wikimedia Commons CARTOON Patriarchal Divinity David Hayward ANIMATION Patriarchal Ecology Vincenzo Fagnani CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Why Every Student Needs Human Ecology Education Now Sandra Ericson Economic Growth Is the Wrong Metric for Our Time Kirsten Stade & Alan Ware A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness Richard Heinberg What Level of Consumption is Sustainable? Measuring Consumption in Terms of Sufficiency Clifton Ware Economic Contraction, Coming Right Up Gail Tverberg Toward an Eco-Social Contract for Regenerative Futures Fan Yang Wars Cause Widespread Pollution and Environmental Damage Richard Marcantonio & Josefina Echavarría Álvarez The Complexity Trap: Abundance, AI, and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness Art Berman Immigration is a Mirror of National Disintegration Art Berman Alberto Brandolini and Mark Twain Issue a Warning About Trump John Allen Paulos Building Inspiring Alternatives Is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism Barbara Peterson Global Deterioration of Workers' Rights—Including in the US Under Trump Eloise Goldsmith Factory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats Alex Crisp Energy and Debt ~ How Does Energy and Debt Affect Economic Growth? Gunnar Rundgren AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality Richard Heinberg American Dictatorship: The Homegrown Edition George Tsakraklides To King or Not to King… Are We Seriously Asking this Question? Alex Leff Only the Village Can Save Us ~ Here's Why Ted Trainer Humanity and Technology Gregg Lavoie The End of the Consumer Society and the Militarization of the Economy Ugo Bardi A World Without iPhones? Who Can Even Imagine It Any More? Frida Berrigan How Trump Promotes a Radical, Unscientific Theory About Sex and Gender in the Name of Opposing 'Gender Ideology Extremism' Ina Seethaler Women, Water, and the Weight of Sustainability Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo Living as One's Neighbor in a Time of Social Divide: What Can the Trinitarian God Teach Us? Simon Mary Aihiokhai Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth There is an annotated archive with links to all articles published since May 2005. Human development in harmony with nature is the existential challenge of our time. The mission of this journal is to foster human development within an integral ecology. You are invited to submit comments, suggestions, and articles for publication. Deadline is the 15th of the month to be considered for the following month.

Luis T. Gutiérrez

Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability